The Principle of Hope

Ernst Bloch, Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice , Paul Knight

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MIT Press
26 May 1995

History of Western philosophy; History of ideas

Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world has rejected the doctrine on which Bloch sought to base his utopia, his work still challenges us to think more insightfully about our own visions of a better world.

The Principle of Hope is published in three volumes- Volume 1 lays the foundations of the philosophy of process and introduces the idea of the Not-Yet-Conscious-the anticipatory element that Bloch sees as central to human thought. It also contains a remarkable account of the aesthetic interpretations of utopian ""wishful images"" in fairy tales, popular fiction, travel, theater, dance, and the cinema. Volume 2 presents ""the outlines of a better world."" It examines the utopian systems that progressive thinkers have developed in the fields of medicine, painting, opera, poetry, and ultimately, philosophy. It is nothing less than an encyclopedic account of utopian thought from the Greeks to the present. Volume 3 offers a prescription for ways in which humans can reach their proper ""homeland,"" where social justice is coupled with an openness to change and to the future.

By: Ernst Bloch
Translated by: Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, Paul Knight
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 794g
ISBN: 9780262522014
ISBN 10: 0262522012
Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 26 May 1995
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas McCarthy is John Schaffer Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University and the editor of the MIT Press series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.

Reviews for The Principle of Hope

The Principle of Hope is one of those all-about-everything books characteristic of German culture during the last 150 years. But unlike its direct predecessor, Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, Bloch's magnum opus... reverses Spengler's world-historical scheme by turning Weltangst ... into 'hope.' In this placing of 'hope' at the center of a history, an anthropology, and a phenomenology of mankind lies the originality of Bloch's undertaking. --J. P. Stern, The New Republic Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope is one of the key books of our century. Part philosophic speculation, part political treatise, part lyric vision, it is exercising a deepening influence on thought and on literature... No political or theological appropriations of Bloch's leviathan can exhaust its visionary breadth. --George Steiner